Amadou Diallo 7-30-15

Today I did my last experiment and finished my poster.

Amadou Diallo 7-29-15

Today I finished up my poster and started writing my research paper.
Tomorrow I'll continue to work on my research paper.

Amadou Diallo 7-28-15

I worked on my poster and then we had a tour of Duquesne.

Amadou Diallo 7-27-15

Today I worked on finishing my poster.
Tomorrow I will probably start my research paper.

Blog Challenge 2: Amadou Diallo

1. Where are you from?
2. Where did you go to high school?
3. Where did you go for your undergraduate degree?
4. What did you major in and why?
5. Where did you go for graduate school?
6. What was your first job after graduate school?
7. Why did you become a professor?
8. Did you have any other career aspirations?
9. Are you interested in other subjects outside of science?
10. What are your hobbies?

     Dr. David Seybert is from the city of Hazleton, PA which is in eastern Pennsylvania. He attended Hazleton High School. He completed his undergraduate degree at Bloomsburg State University as double major in biology and chemistry. When he first started college he only majored in biology because he aspired to become a marine biologist but once he started taking upper level classes of chemistry he decided to major in that also. It was also at this time that he decided he wanted to become a professor. He attended Cornell University for a PhD in biochemistry. After graduate school his first job was as a postdoc researcher at Duke University. After postdoc he got a job as an assistant professor at Duquesne University. He wanted to become professor for two reasons, he loves teaching and he wanted independence. Other than science Dr. Seybert is also interested in math because he believes it works well with science. Dr. Seybert also has many hobbies, he plays the clarinet and the saxophone and he occasionally runs 5K races. He also has an interest in soccer, he was a soccer coach for 15 years and he also has season tickets for the Pittsburgh River Hounds so he always attends their home games.

Amadou Diallo 7-24-15

Today I Worked on my poster and my data.

Amadou Diallo 7-23-15

Today I worked on my poster.

Amadou Diallo 7-22-15

I ran assays with a higher concentration of BSA to see if there was a difference between the ones with lower concentrations.

Amadou Diallo 7-21-15

Today I ran assays with BSA as the crowder.
Tomorrow I will experiment with higher concentrations of BSA.

Amadou Diallo 7-20-15

Today I started to work on my poster a little.
Tomorrow I will start experimenting with BSA as a crowder.

Amadou Diallo 7-16-15

Today I ran some assays with the 7% and 10% ficoll solutions as crowders.
Tomorrow I will probably start to use a different crowder but I'm not sure yet.

Amadou Diallo 7-15-15

Today I worked on making higher concentrations of ficoll.
Tomorrow I will run assays with them.

Amadou Diallo 7-14-15

Today I ran some assay. I also finished editing my abstract.
Tomorrow I will probably run more assays with different concentrations of ficoll.

Amadou Diallo 7-10-15

Today my mentor wasn't here but I ran assays with higher concentrations of ficoll.

Amadou Diallo 7-9-15

Today I ran some assays with different concentrations of ficoll and I made more concentrated ficoll solutions.
Tomorrow I will run assays with the more concentrated solutions.

Amadou Diallo 7-8-15

Today I added a ficoll which is a crowder to my assays.
Tomorrow I will probably just run more assays with ficoll.

Amadou Diallo 7-7-15

Today I presented at the SEED group meeting and it went well. I was supposed to run some assays but the spectrophotometer is not working so instead I started working on my abstract and I will give it to my mentor to review it.
Tomorrow if the spectrophotometer works I will run some assays.

Amadou Diallo 7-6-15

Today I worked on my presentation and ran a few assays.
Tomorrow I'm presenting at the SEED group meeting and I'm probably going to run more assays and start to add crowders into my conditions.

Amadou Diallo 7-2-15

Today I presented to my lab group and got some feedback. I also ran some assays.
On Monday I will probably try some different conditions for the assay.

Amadou Diallo 7-1-15

Today I worked on my powerpoint and I was able to run assays because the machine was fixed.
Tomorrow I will present to my lab group and probably run more assays.